Christen Thomas booked shows for a decade with the Empty Bottle and Metro teams, but that work was just the beginning of the love, joy, and support she showered on the local scene.
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Ambient artist Cinchel invites his audience to play along
Ambient artist Cinchel invites his audience to play along, Save Money rapper Dally Auston celebrates a new EP at 1st Ward, and more.
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An oral history of the Empty Bottle
An excerpt from The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years of Music / Friendly / Dancing
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The Shivas throw a party of lo-fi, surf-happy garage on ‘Manson Girls’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Manson Girls” from the upcoming full-length “You Know What to Do,” out 10/28 via K Records
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Mosh pits and toilet paper antics at Saturday’s Black Lips show
Photographer Alison Green captured the Black Lips’ 4/26 show at Logan Square Auditorium.
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Artist on Artist: Brendan Canty of Deathfix talks to Jay Ryan of Dianogah
Deathfix’s Brendan Canty (who used to drum in Fugazi) talks to Dianogah’s Jay Ryan (who still runs the Bird Machine).
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West Fest guests expressed
Black Lips, Sinden, Derrick Carter, Stagnant Pools, and many more to play West Town street fest July 7-8
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This week on the B Side
Legal problems for the Internet’s copyright free-for-all, Bitchpork’s return, a local rapper goes back to school, and more
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Photo gallery: Lollapalooza 20th Anniversary
Crystal Castles, Lykke Li, Black Lips, and more.
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Getting an eyeful at Lollapalooza
Frodo’s floor-clearing DJ set, Costner on a cart, and more celeb sightings at the fest. Plus: Kesha checks out Disappears, Paleo moves to the Chi, and Mahjongg’s Hunter Husar goes solo
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This week on the B Side
The Reader’s Lollapalooza Survival Guide, plus Paul McCartney, Sade, Iceage, and plenty more non-Lolla stuff too
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Lollapalooza Survival Guide
Twenty nine acts to see—even if you have to fight the crowds
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On the eve of the Blackout’s return, foggy memories from the original run of Chicago’s most notorious raunch ‘n’ roll fest
When Brett Cross and Todd Novak—who founded the raunchy rock ‘n’ roll zine Horizontal Action in 1997—put on the first Blackout in 2001, garage rock occupied a tiny niche in the underground music scene. By the festival’s farewell installment in 2006—also the year Cross and Novak launched their zine’s online replacement, Victim of Time, and […]